A Rumor Confirmed

This column was lifted from a longer article in The Stars and Stripes regarding the battle-savvy American Indians of the First World War and it supports the claims made in 1918 by a number of anonymous allied POW's who reported seeing female soldiers in German machine gun crews as the war ended. There is solid documentation pertaining to the women who served in the Serb, Russian and French armies but very little as to the German ladies who did the same. The article appeared after the Armistice and this was a time when "The Stars and Stripes" editors were most likely to abstain from printing patriotic blather.

Click here to read about the women who fought in the American Civil War.

Click here to read about the woman who entertained the U.S. troops during the First World War.

Click here to read about the Russian combat battalion of women that fought the Germans in the First World War.